The Sun. — London, England, 1838-01-31 00:00:00

..... SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS• A subscription in opposition to the Spottiswoode fund has been opened very successfully in Newcastle, Cambridge, and some other places ; and, from all ac counts, we may soon expect to have to announce large contributions in all our great provincial towns. The good sense and love of justice in Englishmen are too strong to allow them to look on with indifference at cue of the most barefaced invasions of the constitu tional franchise ever attempted in this country. At the last general election the notable scheme was propound ed of starting Orange candidates in Ireland in places where there was not the slightest chance of their suc ceeding, with a view to a pretext for petitioning ; and the object of the Spottiswoode gang fund was liter a lly to disfranchise the Irish constituencies, by exposing the candidates of their choice to an expense which they could not support. It cannot he too much impressed on Englishmen that the expense of defend ing a contested seat is very different in the case of an English and an Irish representative. In the case of the latter the opening the register entails on him the expense of bringing a host of witnesses to London, where they are often detained a long time at a heavy charge. Th'e Spottiswoode subscription is one of the krossest invasions of th e i n d e p en d ence o f the sister ingdom that can possibly be conceived, and it is only by Englishmen combining to defeat the in justice of. Englishmen that a heavy national reproach can be warded off. The people of this country have no more right to employ their money to disfranchise the Irish constituencies than they have to hire assassins to waylay the Irish repre sentatives on their entering this kingdom. The Duke of Newcastle's maxim, may not a man do what he will with his own, would sanction every injustice. No ; a man may not do what he will with his own, if what he wills be unjust. The Christian maxim, " Do unto others as ye will that others should do un to you," is the rule for Christians ; and the Duke of Newcastle's maxim ought never to be mentioned but with the reprobation it deserves. Let, then, English men show, by their contributions, to defeat this un christian Spottiswoode conspiracy, that they feel as they ought towards their Irish brethren, through whom a blow is aimed at Liberal principles and Constitu tional Government. To be neutral on such an occa sion is criminal. We, however, are without appre hension as to the result. The spirit of the country is fairly roused, and justice will be done to Ireland.— Morning Chronicle. When we laid before our readers on Saturday last the long series of startli ng ar g uments and proofs which go to 'demonstrate the utt er frustration of that most exalted measure of the British Parliament, viz., the - Abolition of the Negro Slave Trade, we were unaware that we should so shortly have our argnments corro borated and our proofs enforced by the magnifi cent and impressive eloquence of the greatest of our senatorial philanthropists. We allude to the splendid speech of Lord Brougham upon the same subject on Monday night. It in reality searches and exhausts every corner of the subject. We said on Sa turday that " we were surprised at the injurious and discreditable silence which had been maintained upon the subject, while so much vehemence had been ex.- bausted in speeches, in meetings, and in petitions, on the subject of the apprenticeship system." We have now no longer any reason for that complaint, and we have no doubt that the stirring eloquence of Lord Brougham's speech will prompt the calling and hold ing of public meetings on the subject in the remotest corners of the country. We said on Saturday that the " giant evil of the slave trade, which was once beaten down by the humanity and justice of the Bri tish nation, and by the noble, self-renouncing decree of the British Parliament, is now more rife, more vigi lant, and more truculent than ever." Slave ships, in fact, swarm in the ports of France, of Spain, of Portu gal, and of the Brazils. The old horrors of the middle passage are aggravated. The waters of the Atlantic are bloated from latitude to latitude with those floating Lazar-houses and blood-stained receptacles of human misery in its most awful and excruciating fort . ns. The eastern and western shores of Africa are polluted by the open or covert visits of the felons engaged in the disgusting trade ; and by the pertinacious abomina tions of piratical kidnappers and barefaced homicides. The pure flag of commerce is stained and stigmatised by their unpunished crimes. The march of civic zation towards the centre of Africa is arrested, and the ad vancing torch of Christian enlightenment among the benighted nations of Africa has• been repressed or ex tinguished by this revived abomination. The proofs of this humiliating and deplorable result supplied by Lord Brougham's speech are astounding. They are calcu lated to chill the heart's blood of philanthrope—to torture every sympathy . of humanity—and to make " Its knotty and combined locks to part, And each paricular hair to .stand on cod, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." His Lordship, after stating that the cause of the ag gravated evil was the " head-money clause," and showing that the head-money and blood-money were identical in principle and in efiect, proceeded with the following thrilling statement : " I approach the statement which I am about to sub mit to your Lords l iris, with a feeling of horror which I cannot describe, and whch, even though I have been con sideriag the subject for three or four d I cannot conquer, hut a ith the hope of being able to bring home to your Lord ships' minds all the honor's that are practised in the middle pars ige, and 'silk!) I l ail b e a bl e to tri:ce to this as-stem ot head moaev. Let me first remind your Lord,hips of the an a lo y which this system cf head money hears to what is called blood money. Precisely the same is the effect of the Leal-money—the vessel goes in, and is allowed to lay to ; the forcible separation of friends and relatives takes place, and the war of plunder goes on—nothing is dotte to prevent that ; the peLatty does not attach—to use the same phrase, the ship do..s not weigh enough—she has not got her weight —her cargo—she has not got the slaves aboard for whom, in proportion to the number 51., each is to be paid. And now, my Lords, conic we to consider the iniquity which is perpe trated and which is almost unavoidable, considering with whom our cruisers have to do. The vessel, on being descried, and seeing that the cruiser is making chase, calculates first whether she is so near to port as to be able to regain her berth for the moment, and choose a better opportunity of coming out—or whether she should not rather make an attempt to accomplish the middle passage, and escape, by her structure and swifter sailing, the pursuit of the cruiser, by throwing over a part of the cargo. He throws men, women, and children overboard. Does he knock off their fetters ? No. Fet ters of what sort, my Lords It is a fact, and it speaks volumes as to this traffic—it is an appalling fact in this case that the fetters are not padlocked or screwed, but rivetted by the blacksmith in his forge before the vessel sails, because they are never intended to be loosened until they arrive in the port of America. The human beings, in order to lighten the vessel, are flung overboard, with weights appended, so as to ensure their instant destruction. They are loaded—purposely loaded—so as to entangle them and prevent their swimming, and to ensure the destruction of the evidence, as well as to secure the escape of the malefactor. My Lords, even this is not all. It has bean found that being uncertain whether they could throw them overboard in time enough with security, they have packed them in water casks—packed them two and three in water-casks—loaded those casks, and flung them overboard. One vessel, in an escape sent twelve of those casks overboard, filled with human beings.—(Hear.) My Lords, there were two vessels thus overtaken, captured by her Majesty's cruisers, and out of those two vessels, it had been proved by incontestible evidence, that to enable the crew to make their escape— but the attempt was made in vain—five hundred slaves were thrown overboard, every one of whom met a watery grave. The very sharks follow those vessels when they leave the port, and that the track of the slaver is to be traced in the ocean, by the blood of her murdered victims—by the blood of those whom the crew, in order to effect their escape from justice, have revoltingly murdered. " M.rtua quill etiam jungebat corpora vivis." If one of those two fettered slaves die on board the ves sel, he is allowed to remain bound to the one who is left miserable, because he has not shared the fate of his fel low slave. A woman is allowed to give birth to the fruit of her womb on the deck of the vessel, which is covered with the decaying corpses of her fellow slaves. My Lords, if I am asked to what I ascribe the existence of this inhuman system—if I am asked how these enormities are to be pre vented ?—I have no hesitation in stating that it is to be as cribed entirely to the system of head-money, which I have detailed." The enormity of the evil has been now fully pressed upon the public attention. The retnedy is the next object to which that attention should be devoted. It is imperative, both on account of the violated national honour, and on account of the groans of suffering hu manity, that it should be instantly and effectively ap plied. On Saturday we suggested the chief cause of the frustration of the great measure of negro slavery abolition, which was carried in the British Parliamen after the exertions of a quarter of a century by the humane and indefatigable labours of Wilberforce and Clarkson, of Pitt and Fox—we stated that it was the want of a preventive, rather than a post facto power of condemning slavers. We gave, at the same time, a substantial narrative of the present statusquo of our treaties with the slave-trade-renouncing nations— Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Prussia, and Austria— and the relative defects and advantages of our treaties for the abolition of the slave trade, with France, Por tugal, and Spain. It is not, therefore, requisite, after so brief an interval, to recapitulate all those causes or re-produce that substantial analysis. We shall briefly say that the treaty with Spain upon the subject (although we believe its provisions have been evaded in a great measure up to the present time) is highly honourable to the philanthropic zeal, as well as to the diplomatic talent and exertions of the Foreign-office. It would be well if its stringent provisions could be applied to our treaties with Portugal and the Brazils. It ought to be made, in our opinion, the model of all future treaties with foreign nations for the abolition of slavery. Its chief merit consists in its explicit ex action of the " equipment clause," which frustrates the head-money or blood-money clause, since it empowers both contracting parties, not only to capt ure , con d emn , and punish on the spot, pirates caughtfagrante delieto, but (whenever the equipment, construction, anti accom modation of slave-ships undeniably demonstrate their purpose), to search, capture, and make prize of them in their passages to the slave coasts, and in the ports where they lurk, and in the very teeth of the homicidal nests and human shambles of their com mercial employers. Till this be done no effectual ob literation of this great stain upon the 19th century can be expected. We trust that the British nation will not rest for one moment till this effectual means of vindicating its national honour and avenging and pro tecting the outraged rights of humanity be placed se curely in its hands. Lord Brougham has demon strated what the effects of the head-money clause are. Its effects are calculated to " harrow up the soul," and to stimulate torpor itself to indignant execration. The abolition oflhat clause—the substitution of reward for bulk, and the acquisition in all treaties of the equip ment clause, are the great remedies which all friends of humanity ought to move heaven and earth in obtain ing. Agitation - on this question by every individual is at once a public and a private duty.—Morning Ad vertiser. In considering the conduct of the present Ministers of the Crown there is one source of error, from the effect of which, obvious as it is, and often as its in fluence has been already seen to operate unjustly to their advantage, it is nevertheless difficult for the most cautious, or jealous, or even hostile, judge wholly to exempt himself. That source, of a too favourable and flattering estimate of Ministerial cha racter and pretensions, consists in the impossibility generally experienced by honourable men of realising and keeping up in their o;vu minds the idea of mean ness, and baseness, so grovelling an object as that which Ministers have repeatedly exhibited, associated with the lofty birth to which some of their number can lay claim, and the elevated rank to which the whole of them, perfas ant nejas, have attained. It requires, indeed, no common effort of a sound and virtuous mind to conceive, even after the melancholy fact has been forced, in repeated instances, upon its reluctant atten tion, a junction so monstrous and disgusting as the perma nent and habitual union of noble blood and exalted sta tion with the most sordid dispositions, and the meanest vices, that are ever seen to operate even among the lowest and vilest specimens of the multitudinous and undistinguished rabble of mankind. Hence it is that Conservatives are led to speak of each new act of des picable meanness performed by the Melbourne Goveni ment as if' it had something about it calculated to ex cite more especial wonder—as if it surpassed all former baseness—as if it were more and worse than they had the right to expect. It is certainly true that honour able statesmen, when they have found the Legislature disposed upon public measures and interests of the highest importance, to prefer the wisdom and the po licy of rival statesmen to such as they had offered, after full deliberation to its adoption, have invariably thought it their duty to retire from office, leaving the duties and responsibilities of Government to those in whom the Legislature had manifested its superior con fidence. It is unquestimiably true, also, that all per sitHat and m y stification apart, the essential c h anges , effected be the House of Commons in the Bill of Lord John Russell for the future government of the Canadas, arose from nothing else but the fact that the House of Commons preferred the wisdom and policy of Sir Robert Peel to those of Lord John Russell and his Colleagues. Yet we roust think, upon reflection, that the general expression of surprise and diseust, however natural such manifestations of teeling might be in the first instance, which the retention of office by Ministers, in circumstances so deeply humiliating, has called forth; from every quarter of the land, conveys more than one implication, which, as applied to the present Government must be designated as the grossest flattery. Honourable Statesmen—Statesmen holding office for pwriotism rather than for pelf—Statesmen having re gard to the public interest, in preference to their own ; Statesmen anxious to sustain the character of the Executive Government, and to uphold the honour and dignity of that Crown of which they profess to be the loyal and faithful servants—would, beyond all doubt, have retired in the same c•reurnstances. But is this any reason why Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell, and the rest of their crew should have been expected to retire ? Are they Honourable Statesmen who have kept office for years, although unable to fulfil any one of the pledges by means of which they obtained office ? Do they hold office for patriotism, and not for pelf, who, in order to retain office, consent to serve, for alternate Sessions of Parliament as slaves at the feet of Mr. O'Connell, and as tools in the Conserva tive hands of Sir Robert Peel ? Are they to be Sus pected of preferring the public interest to their own who permitted the rebellion in Canada to grow, with out restraint, into vigorous maturity, rather than endanger the success of their own electioneering intrigues in Great Britain ? Are they such States men as hold the character of Government and the honour and dignity of the Crown to be things of the highest price, when they converted the officer of the Queen's household into a busy electioneering agent, to secure a seat in the House of Commons for one of the most zealous instigators and abettors of colo nial treason ? Retire, forsooth I What expectation, when properly considered, could be more preposterous r Why, their tenure of office is more secure than that of the Judges, founded, as it is, not upon the bene, but upon the male gesserit, and coeval with their willing ness to throw principle overboard the moment it be comes inconvenient, an d t o stea l t h e measures of their political opponents the moment an idea strikes them that they are measures likely to obtain the sanction of a majority. Go out, truly ! Why, had Lord J. Russell had the hardihood to brave the division, from which he shrank, on Sir R. Peel's amendments, and been defeated, as he assuredly would have been, still would Ministers have been as far as ever from thinking of going out. Nay, we are persuaded that the rejection of their Canada Bill bythe House of Commons, preamble, clauses, and all, would not have made them budge, unless the rejection had been accompanied by what might have seemed its valid justification, that the Mi nisters who claimed by this Bill extraordinary and un constitutional powers were not fit to be entrusted with them, seeing that they had made a bad, weak, indolent, and dishonest use, in respect to Canada, of such powers as the law had already placed in their hands. If there be any Conservatives who dream of Ministers going out, unless upon the compulsion of a process analogous to that which is of force to strip the ermined Judges of their robes, such Conservatives are miserably deceived --they have not computed at a tythe of their value the sordid greediness of office, and the unprincipled prodigality of all that can render office respectable, which constitute the basis and the cement of Lord Melbourne's Government. But even for this evil a remedy may, and must, be found. Two travellers on one of the late severe nights, at the fireside of a country inn, agreed to play at chess for the warmer seat. The man accidentally in possession of the preferable place was beaten once, twice, thrice ; but still he never of fered to move. Towards the conclusion of the fourth THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1838, game, in which he was once more plainly destined to be vanquished, he observed, however, that his compe titor had got hold of the poker, which he was grasping in a very determined mcnner. " What do you want with the poker ?" he asked, with visible anxiety; to which the successful player replied, " I have won your seat fairly four times ; but chess I see will do nothing, so I mean to try the effect of the poker." We leave it to the Conservatives in the two Houses of Parlia ment to apply the story.—Morning Post. PUBLIC DINNER IN HONOUR OF THOMAS MUIR, ESQ., ADVO CATE, MARTYRED TO FREEDOM IN 1793. This splendid festival in honour of departed worth and patriotism, was held in the elegant new mansion of James Duncan, Esq., of Mosesfield, near Glasgow, on Tuesday evening. Thomas Da‘idson, Esq., in the absence of C. J. Tennant, Esq., of St. Rollox, by indisposition, in the Chair. James Turner, Esq., of Thrushgrove, Bailie of the River and Frith of Clyde, and William Lan., Esq., acted as croupiers. The room was decorated with two busts of Mr. Muir, one of them in marble by Mossman ; also with portraits of his father and mother, and other interesting ornaments. The dinner was excellent and abundant, and nearly 100 gentlemen were present. The following toasts, introduced by speeches possessing much force, spirit, and truth, were drunk after the cloth was removed : " The Queen, God bless her, and may she long reign more in a spirit of wisdom and liberality than most of her forefathers have done." " The Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Sussex, and the other Liberal members of the Royal Family." " The Army and Navy." " The People—the Legitimate Source of all Political Power." " Her Majesty's Ministers, and may they have the honesty to consider themselves not the tools of the Court, or aristo cracy, but the servants of the community." The CHAIRMAN, in an eloquent address, then reguested the company to pour out a libation to— " The Immortal Memory of Thomas Muir." This toast was drank in solenin silence. " The speedy establishment of Household Suffrage, Trien nial Parliaments, and Vote by Ballot.' " Brougham—and success to the principles he has hitherto so ably advocated." " The representatives of the people,- and may they have the wisdom to discern the signs of the times, and filmness to act accordingly." " Daniel O'Connell, and Justice to Ireland." " The Liberty of the Press, the Palladium of the Reli gious, Political, and Civil Rights of the People." " The people's Representative, Mr. Hume." " James Blair, Esq., the nephew of Mr. Muir." " The memory of the DepArted Companions of Thomas Muir." " Justice to Canada." " Trial by Jury." " The Poles, and the Speedy Establishment of their Na tionality and Independence." Mr. LANG gave— " The Memory of Major Cartwright," and related that such was the antipathy of this Father of Reform to the Judges who sentenced Muir, that he did not visit Scotland as long as these Judges were living." - EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.—Jas. 30. The Columbian, Pritchard, from Singa pore, off Falmouth, sailed Sept 17 ; the Cecilia, Beckman, from Manilla, off Falmouth ; the Falcon, Middlemist, from Madeira, at Cowes. Arrivals at Anjer (Straits of Sunda.)—The Alexander Baring, St. Croix, Sept.—from London, and sailed for China; the Jungltborough, Ricketts, Sept. 26, from Liverpool, and sailed for China; the Eliza Stuart, Miller, Oct. 6, from Lon don, and sailed for China. Arrivals at Singapore.—The Buckinghamshire, Hopkins, August 14, fro-n Bombay, and sailed next day for China ; the Carnatie, Laird, August 15, from Bombay, and sailed for China ; the Anni', Griffiths, from Bombay, and sailed for China; the Jaguenav, White, August 26. from Liverpool, and sailed Sent. 6, for China ; the Water Witch, Rayner, August 30, from China; the Samuel liarrocks., and Helen, from the Pedir.Coast ; the Ann, Pyhus, Sept, 8, from Calcutta, and sailed Sept. 13 ; the Edinburgh, Marshall, Sept. 10, from Bsinbay, and sailed Sept. 13, for China ; the Arab, Terrier, Sept 11, from Penang, and sailed Sept 13, for China ; the Watkins, Whiteside!, Sept. 11, from the Mauritius ; the Sarah, Birkett, Sept. 12, from Liverpool ; the Jessie Logan, Black, Sept. 13, from Bombay ; the Fly, Horn, S, , pt. 15, from Malacca ; the Herald, Watt, from Batavia. Departures from Sin,gapor,...—The Louisa, Simon, August :30, for Chilli ; the Catharine, August 31, for the west coast of Sumatra ; the Hero, Smallwood, September 1, for London; he Eleanor, Simms, September 2, for Bombay ; the Hoa. Company's ship Diaia, Congalton, Sept. 10, for Malacca and Penang; the Herald, Watt, Sept. 12, for Manilla ; the Aber crombie, Ittibinsen, Sept. 4, for China. ACCIDENT TO MR. FRANCIS ELOYD.—A. serious accident, .ery nearly attended with fatal consequences, Iris befallen this gentleman. He was trying oa Fri Jay to break a thorouvh-bred horse of his (a racer, aged), into leaping, with a view of converting him into a hunter. At a trifling leap, a dry ditch and low rails, the horse made so unnecessary and unexpected a spring, by admeasurement upwards of six yards, that M'r. Lloyd sacs flung with tremendous ferco upon his head to the earth. He struck the ground, a ploughed field, with such violence as to leave a considerable dent, h's hat having fallen off. His servant, who was riding beside him, galloped off to Birmingham, four miles distant, for me dical aid, after calling some labourers' attention to his nu fortunate and prostrate master. In three hours he returned with Mr. Bowyer Vaux, Mr. Lloyd's surgeon : but that gen tieman found it impossible for some timo to draw blond from him, so entirely was animation suspended. With difficulty he was then removed to the Gough's Arms Tavern, at Perry Barr, and remained under surgical care until the following evening, when Mrs. Lloyd, of Bingley-house, his mother, cotiyeecl him to her residence in her carriage, but sensibility ev,s far from being restored until the following Tuesday. The injury, we understand, is confined to a concussion of the brain. Mr. Francis Lloyd is a balker in Birmingham, and one of the roost active Police Magistrates of that town. Monday afternoon, between four and fire o'clock, the following frightful and appalling accident occurred in Villiers-street, Strand, to a waggoner in the employ of Messrs. Cuthbert and Sons, coal-merchants, liungerford-market. It appears that the unfortunate man was driving his e mployers' wsggen up Villiers -street, into the Strand, laden with three tons and a half of coals, di-awn by seven horses, a man leading the fore-horse, and the waggoner the shaft one, unfor funatcly, his feet slipped beneath hi m , an d h e f e ll ; before he hid power to extricate himself, the w h ee l s of the waggon , with its ponderous weight, pass e d over hi s l ower extremities, crushing them in a frightful man ner . Th e screa ms of the un fortunate sufferer were pitiable. when, Some p e r so ns who witnessed the melancholy catastrophe hastened to his assistance, and a shutter being procured, he was conveyed on it to Charing cross hospital, where, on his arrival, on an examination by the surgeon.% of the injuries he had sustained, they were discovered to Le so extensive and serious, that no hopes are entertained of his recovery. ANTWERP, Jan. 27.---Our City, too, in its turn, has had a considerable fire. L ast night, at ten o'clock , a fire broke out in the sugar manufa c t ory o f M r. J. Van Overlen ; though it was got under by tw e l ve o ' c l oc k , t h e building was a'most entirely consumed, but the dw e lli n g-house was save d. The manufactory and its contents, which were almost entirely destroyed, were insured. The damage done by the fire in the Hospital of Bererloo, on the ' , 4th, is stated to be 200,000 francs. Four men lost their lives on the spot, being entirely burnt; and of ten others who wero severely injured, three have since died. The seven others are recovering. COVENTRY.—We havg. to state that a contagious disorder (we fear a malignant cholera) is producing the most alarmiag havoc in the House of Industry at Coventry. The matron (Mrs. Warring) died on Friday last; and we hare been furnished from an authentic source, with the following melancholy list of deaths in that institution alone, in the course of a single week, up to Wednesday morning last. The destruction is frightful —twenty in two days, forty-six in the week, amounting to one-sixth of the number in the house, the whole being 280— Warwick Advertiser. Mr. Charles Borrows, mason, of St. Austell, after studying for many years the beet method of destroying damps in coal mines, has succeeded in constructing a machine which will effectually destroy them, and enable the miner to prose cute his work with the aid of a lighted candle, without lanthorn or any covering, in perfect safety. The invention is simple and not expensive, and we trust for the sake of the in ventor, and those for whom his invention is intended, that it will become generally in use, so that Mr. Borrows may be re warded for his ingenuity and philanthropy.—Western Times. SIR JAMKS GRAHAM.—A writer of fustian in the Carlisle Patriot, compares the Cumberland Baronet, whose desertion of all his former (professed) political opinions, is so notorious, to a " noble stag I" Hear what this gifted dabler in dowlas saith of his " noble stag".." The Sun, the Chro nicle, the Globe, and all the mongrel pack of Nlinisterial lurchers and hangers-on have been againhounded on the traces of Sir James Graham ; but, like the noble stag, he has so far outstripped his daily and weekly currish assailants, that their voices have died upon the breeze, and become so impotent and weak, that the tired ear is no longer vexed by them. So ar gument has been touched, no assertion contradicted, no fact impugned, but the speech delivered by Sir James Graham has come true out of the crucible, like thrice tried gold —pure, brilliant, rich—and has been read and studied by millions of the admiring English public." Has the Graham "gold" sug gested the fanciful similitude ? Tus Pooft.—On Monday a public meeting of the inhabitants of Sheffield was held at the Cutler,' Hall, John Greaves, Esq., the Master Cutler, in the chair, for the bene volent purpose of promoting a subscription to relieve the dis tress which is unforthnately now prevalent among the poorer classes in the parish, naturally arising from the long-con tinued depression of trade which has existed in that neighbour hood, and combined as it has lately been with the dreadful in clemency of the season. The meeting was attended by a number of the principal Merchants and Manufacturers, by the Clergy, by most of the resident Dissenting Ministers, and other influential inhabitants of the town, together with a nu merous portion of these most materially interested in the issue, the industrious artizans of Sheffield. PRICES OF CANSLS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, J.N. 30. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Paid. Share 3lsares. Annum. 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton and Oldham.... Average 971. 18s. eh. 133 1.182 4/. Ashby-de-le-Zouch i-verage 115/. sh. 65 3 1 ,000 °°5 1-165h 5 . 1. 9/. 6s. LIM 4.000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...125 1 . sh. 100 pd 26 Bizri Birmingham, m a n , O l- A 1 ti b t e h r g s a h v a e i r y ...... 81 1 1 1 , . 7 s i h i .. 2 %1 0 0 600 21. Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001. sh. all pd 64 400 41. Chelmer and Blackwater 1001. sh. 102 500 481. Coventry 100/ sh 700 4.545 Croydon 2,0601 4k Os, Dudley ..- 100/ sh 03 600 71. Derby 100/ sh 133 1 1 ,000 3,575} 31. Ellesmere and Chester ...... A verage 1331. sh. 77 231 401. Erewasl ' 001. sn. 700 1 1,297 231. Forth and Clyde A yen. 7e 4001.65. th. 610 1 1,000 121. Grand Juncti:n li. - 01 sh 219 2,3494 11. Grand Union 1001. sh 25 1,500 Grand Surrey =0,600/. 4!. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/. 70 3,096 Grand Western sh all p,l 600 13/.125. NI Glamorganshire, Average cast 172/. 13s. Id. 230 749 101. Grantham '5Ol sh. 202 6,238 21. Oa. Huddersfield Averag, 571. 6s. 60. ali. 37 100 Kensington 101 all. pd. 10 7 5,328 11. ss. Kennet a nil Avon, Average 39/. 18s. 100. sh. 24 2,3971 241. Leeds and Liverpool 100/ sh. 660 5451 131. Leicester l4O/ sh. 225 1,897 4/. 10s. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 63/.108. 2611 2,400 101. Monmouthshireloo/ sh 20,i 150 10/. Melton Mowbray 100/ sh 200 1001 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 3.000 1!.10s. Macclesfield 100/ sh. all pd. 52 247 171. Neath 1001. sh. 325 1,786 301. Oxford I 00/. sh. 530 3400 5/. Peak Forest Avel.,te about 781. sh. 104 1, , 413 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 163. 80. sh. 16 5,669 61. per rent. Rochdale average 85/. sh. 111 500 81. Shropshire 1251. sh. 138 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/ sh 1511 3,600/. 41 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. sh. 111 700 40/. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 710 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/ sh 280 300 9/. 3tourbridge 3,647 21. 6s. Stratford-on-Avon ...Avere 79!. Os. led. sh. 50 533 121. Swansea 100/ sh 239 3,762 I/. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway...AT sh. 27 2,6001 eh. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, I share 100/. sh. 560 4,149 1,0005 h./ 4,00015 h. , 51_ Warwick a•id Birmingham 100 / sh 265 3 ' 9')O 111. Warwick and Napt lOO/. sh. 185 6,000 4/.os. Worcester ante Birmingham...A v. 781.85. sh. 791 5,000 255. Wilts an. Berks. .. Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh. 22 300 3!. Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 75 .7.-o ....., Wisbeac h lO5l. sh. 45 905 It. Wcy and Arun llol.sh. 261 DOCKS. 3,600 k 13p. c Commercial lOO/. sh. 56 1,06515 h 498,66711. 6 per ct. East India Stock 106 3,238,31011. 565. p.ct. London Stock 57 Ditto Bonds 99 1,380,0001. W. p. ct. %Vest India Stock 9.' 2.209 24 19s. Bristol 68,324!. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1,152,752 5 per cent. St. Kathatine Stock 101 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds lOO 2(10,000 a ser cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 994 Shoreham 14,0bour 2.500 .... .... Deptford Pier 2Ol. sh. 31. BRIDGES. 1,600 Ifs, Hammersm'ti 5Ol. sh. 221 7,`Z.31 Southwark, Old Av. 031. 2s. 80. sh. 2 1,700 11. 154. Ditto, New, of 7; per cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 ...... ... Waterloo 560550! g „ 1 : 1 55 1.1 1p . . e. B ii 5d1.... t . cent. lOO/. sh. 3 D ui i t tt , o o , B O oi ld ids. Annuities of 5/. 6O/. pd 19 Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 161 115 5,244 17s Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 18 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. '2,000 3110 s Albion 5001. sh. 501 pd 80 Alliance,British & Foreign 100/. sh. 101/. pd 13 50 , 000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 51. pd fi 24,000 41 per sh. Atlas 501. sh. 5/. pd 14 1,200450. 51. Birmingham t ire '2501. sh. 551. pd 1073 20,000 41 percent. British Fire •'2501. sh. 50/. pd 42 12,000 61 percent. British Comm,rcial 501; Me. 51. pd 61 5,000 5/. percent. Clerical, Medi .10,&c. Life, ICOLsh. 2110 s pd 4 1 4,000 21 lOs County 1001. sh. 101. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle tendr cent.") 200 3O/ N. 3 Economic Lite lOOO/. sh. 230/. pi 375 2,271 225. per cent. European lA. • "01. sh. all pd 22 60,000 2s. Ditto, New "Cl. sh. 2/. pd 11 1,000,00411. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 151 20,000 51. Guardian IOW. sh. 2711 pd 33 40 , 000 6s. ficl. Hope 50/. sh. 51. pd 5 4 2,400 51. 7s. 6,1. Imperial lire 500/. sh. 501. pd 1263 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 10 13,454 41. percent. Indemnity M-irine lOO/. sh. 8/. pi 101 2,020 31 108 Kest Fire 50/. sh. all pd 82 3/. Ditto Life. 79 10,910 IN. Law Life lON. sh. 10/. lxi 251 51x10 103. London, Fir, '251 sh. 12!. 103. pd 154 3,9,10 10s. Londca, Ship .5/ sh. 1.1. 10s. pd 151 30,041 5/. per cent. Palladium Lii .• 5O/. sh. 2/. pd 218 s 04 50,000 4/. per cent. Protector Fite '2ol. sh. 21. pd 17404 2,500 1/. Provident Late 100,000 ss. Rock Life 201. sh. 11. pd 1; 689,220/ 5/. per cent. Royal Exell.hge Stork... 2254 6,000 5 per cent. University Lite 'OOl sh. 51. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kitigloin Lite 2/. pd JOINT StliCK BANKS 25,004 8 per cent. Agric. and Comm. of Ireland 251. sh. 101. lid 14 SAIO Auttr.ilaiia 4O/. sh. 401. pd 51 per cent. Bank of Bo iningham 5 ll. sh. 101. pd 13 1 1 ( 0 /,(7(10 1 1 1 0%er cent. Bit mingham Bank . 5O/. sh. 5!. pd 1 6 30,0810 5 per cent. London and Westminster ...lON sh. 20/. pd 211 :%000 4 per cent. Lanca5ter..........„....... ........ 100/. ph. '2 O /. pd 50 :25,11011 Liverpool 1091 sit. 10/. I 'd 2$ 50,000 74 per sent Manc.hestet and Liverpool 24 iov - I.sh. 151 pu - Discount , 21,000 7 per cent. Manchester. 100/. sh. 251 pd 27 23,000 Provincial II ink of lreland...loo/. sh. 25/. pi 34 20, CO National Bank of Ireland ...5"l. sh 1741. pd 154 10,010 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. ...lOU sh. 351. pd 33 19,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. lilt. pd 20 6,010 10 per cent. flanipshire 50/. sh 51. pd 9 0 AS LIGHT AND COKE CONIPANIES. 2,500 1/ 3s 60 Bath . 5,000 British 4O/. sh. 161. pd 21 5,000 t5/.percent.` an , Rs. s „ .t Ditto Provincial 928 5/ 101, Birmingham 1.250 2/ Os Bristol 1,500 IS , 10s Brighton 750 51 lib Ditto, New 2Ol. 811. Isl. pd 1'x 2,171 41 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 17 4,000 4/, Continental Cansolidattol lOOl. 6241. pd 55 1,000 101. City 01 Lou don 9O/. sh. 19 d 2 2 4 100/. sh. all pd 182 1,001 61. Ditto, New 11,0;0 41. 10s. Equitable 'o/. pd 304 10,i'00 21 per cent. Imperial 800 52 1 . per cent. Isle of Tfia,iet 251. sh. 201. pd 20 2,350 61. per cent. independent V/. sh. alt pd 481 9,000 31. per cent. Phoenix 50/. eh. 99/. pd 214 1,000 4/, per cent. Ratcliff 100/. sh. RI. pd 56 4, 1 '0 South Metropolitan 5O/. sh. 111. pd 17 , 8 ,200 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 461. psi 24 240 5/. per cent. Warwick.... 501. sh. 50 400 13!. per cent Wakefield '251. sh. 421 12,11'0 3/, Westminster Chartered 6 1° 0 12s. Ditto New 3l I. sh. 101. pd 83 eco Yarmluth 2Ol. sh. 181. pd 9 WATER WJNKS. 1,800 Ps. Binriticrham 25/. sh. 25/ pd t,114 6/. East Londoii lOOl. sh. 149 5 ,500 2!105 Dr .nd .WlE:non •kverage 411 13s. 4d. sh. 54 2,000 21. Ken , lOOl. sh. 43 . __. 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 1,500 2/ 10s Now diver Loudon Bridge i f VaterAnnuities 58 6,486 1/ Iss Mnochestei and Salford .lOO/. sh. 53 1,000 4 per cont. F..auth Lou loci lOO/. sh. 87 8,294 4/. - West Middlesex ....Average 031. j2s. H. sh. 90 1.360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 ...... .. Birmingham and Derby 2Ol. pd 1(1 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 123/. pd 5 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction Oi 150,0 Bristol and Exeter 1001. 811. 10 pd 2.1 650 Calcutta and Saugur 5O/. sh. 21. pd 113 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western...loo/. sh. 73/ 23 3,004 Clarence lOO/. sh. my. pd 30 12,000 Commereial Blackwall 50/. sh. :!/ pd Oi 6,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. sh. 23 pd 23 69 ,( 0 ) ' Eastern Counties • 251. sh. 31. pl 11 -- Grand Junction. 1001• •- sh 95/. p i 161 ..... . Great North of England lO/ pd 25, 1 731 • 2,00 • v,OOO Hull and , elby 50i. sh. 10/. pd 5 , 10,00 A Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pa 14 2,1110 31. p er cen t . L ee d s and 5e1by........ lOO sin 4} 1 ,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington ....5 0 1. sh. all pd 70 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester-10(1.8h. 1001. pd 195 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares '2sl. pd 61 36,000 12,000 London and Blz,kwall 5Ol. eh 31 pet 41 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2O/. s l 4 101. pd 19 25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares Si. pd r 7 } 20,000 London and Birmingham ...1001. sh. 9 0 /. London and Southampton ....W. sh. 501. pd 40 5/ Ditto ditto New pd 163 ...pd 211 7,000 London and Croydon Trunk 201. sh. 2i 1. pd 11 7,000 Ditto Scrip 141. sh. 5/. pd 141 12,000 London Grand Junction... 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 0 2 10,0041 Manchester and Birmingliam 70/.sh 71. pd S 1 North Midland 100/. sh. 251. pd 25 Northern and Eastern lOO/. sh. s/. pd 41 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 30/. pd 23,000 ..... .. South Eastern and Dover 7l. pd 5 1, 0 00 10/..per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 240 9,000 ... ...... Thames Haven 501. eh V/. 105. pd 0 1 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 50/. sh. 21. pd 01 6,000 York and North Midland ...50 • sh. 121. pd 111 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5l. oh. 30. pal 12 4,000 11. ss. Alten 151. sh. 121. 10s pd 111 10,000 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, in. Si. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd 3 Ditto Subscription :251. pa 4 2,000 Pl. Bolanos 10,000 11. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm .35/. sh. 204 pd 111 6,000 Macaubas ix Cocaes United 251.5 h. 23 1 2 1. pd 5 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Hay 201. oh. 9/. pd 31 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. eh. 204 pd 5 10,000 .... ..... Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. Si. ixl 6 20,000 British Iron 501. sh. 501 pcl 35 6,000 British Copper 5l. sh. 411. pd l; Cata Branca 9/. pd 8 Candonga 7l/. pd '7l 10,000 I/ Copiapo 2O/. sh 1211 pd 6} 8,500 ... Colombian, iss. 51. pm. 2,850 Si. English 121 Ks. pd 20,000 General Mining Association...2ol. oh. 15/. pd 10 6,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh. 5511. pd 2 3,008 Polherou Consols 10/. sh. Si. pd 3 11,500 Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd I)2' 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2pm -.401. sh. all pd 2} ... ...... DWG Scrip ' 2l Ditto New Scrip Si pd 21 West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs sh. 21 1,00 70 ......... Russell 25gs sh. 9 King' College 1001. pd 26 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 155. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. 2fi/. pd 34} 6,000 41. per cent. British American Land Company 23/. pd 14 10,0 00 oi. per cent. Canada Company 100/. sh. 28/. pd 33 00,0 00 5/, per cent. Upper Canada Loan 93 City Bonds, 4 per cent lOl 15,000 il. 65. General Steam Navi g ation ...15/..h. 13/. pd 21 1 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 1/. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. s h. 19 3,000 ......... Caoutchouc Company .5/ sh. 214 pd li New Brunswick Land Company 431. pd 11 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...1001. sh. 1001. p d 127* 2 633 51. per cent. Ditto New 10 , /. sh. 701. pd 86 4,000 10,0 00 tii. Van Die.,ner.'s Land 1001. sh. 171. pd 91 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. DEC. 30, 1837. BANKS. 1,500 , 0041. 61. p. ct. Tian% of Scotland 2,000 ox/. 5; p. ct. Royal of Scotland 1001. sh. all pd 1611. 5 00.0)0/. Bp. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. :di pd 2351. 3,000,0001. 6/. p. ct. Commercial &ill. sh. 1001. pd 1751. 5000A/oi. ,0. rt. 1. , 0 - -tional 1:)0/. sh. 10/. pd 16/. 2,000,0001. 61. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2504 sh. 50/. pd 69/. 4,0000.0/. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 30/. pd 39:1. INSURANCE COMPANI ES. 25L000sh 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 204 sh. 1/, pd 275. . 7 _ 5OQ Qp. ct. Hercules HU sh. 10/. pd 131 151. 100 : 0 00 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....101. sh. all pd 8151 50, 000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 151. LO OO sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd V/ Os 5, 000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 10/. IDA 14110 a moo. 3! p. et. West of Scotland lO/. pd 5t Os MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 ...... ... Edin. and Gins. Un. Cana1...501. sh. all pd 92/. Ditto Allocated 96/. sh. all pd 651. 5, 400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stack Water.... 25/. sh. all pd 341. Carron Iron Company ' , 50/. sh. all pd 4 51 . 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery ...... -.501. sh 38/. pd 43/. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2°l. sh. 16/. pd 1 4 1 . 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 2.111. sh. all pd 58/. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas •':il. eh. all pd 611 . 750 7! per cent. I.eith Coal Gas 201. sh. all pd 45!. 1,206 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Rallway...sol. sh 501. 3,000 5 per coat. Equitable Loan Company, 25/. ch. 8/, pd 10/. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, JAN. 30. TILE QUEEN EXPARTE RICKETS V. THE COMMISSIONERS OF TILE SLAVE COMPENSATION FUND. Lord DENMAN delivered judgment in this case. This was an application for a mandamus to be directed to the defendants to command them to adjudicate upon a claim made by Mr. Ricketts in respect of an estate in Jamaica, called the Tre lawny estate, to which he claimed to be entitled, either as a tenant in tail under a settlement made by hi 9 grandfather, or as tenant in fee of his father, the mortgagee of the estate. The Commissioners set up, in answer, that the question of the title to the estate was now under adjudication by the Court of Chancery in Jamaica, and that consequently they had no power to decide on the claim of Mr. Ricketts, which must first be settled before the regular tribunal in Jamaica;; the pro visions of the Act were perfectly unambiguous, and the rule, therefore, ittu fle discharged. TNE QUEEN V. THE MAYOR OF LEEDS This was an appeal for a mandamus to the Mayor of Leeds to admit Mr. Wood to the office of town-councillor of that borough. A Mr. Brown, elected in 1836, became bankrupt in June, 1837. The Mayor directed, in November, an elec tion of two councillors for the ward, in the room of the one who went out by rotation and in the room of Mr. Brown. The election took place, and 244 persons voted for White head and Watson, while 120 voted for Wood alone. It was now contended that there ought to have been an election of one person in the room of the two councillor who went out by rotation ; that the nomination of the two persons was good for nothing, that their election was void, and that the only voters who had not thrown away their votes had voted' for Wood. On the other hand, it was said that, though the Mayor might have been wider a mistake in ordering an elec tion of two persons, th a t election could not be good as to one and void as to another, but was void altogether. Sir W. Follett appeared for Mr. Wood, and the Attorney-General for the Mayor of Leeds.—Rule absolute. BAIL COURT, JAN. 30. CUSTODY OF WILLS. Sir WI , OI. FOLLETT renewed a motion which he made on Sa turday last for a rule", calling upon Mr. Hardwick, the late Registrar of the Court of Peculiars at Bridgenorth, to show causj why he should not deliver up to the present holder of that situation certain wills, codicils, &c., that came into his possession by virtue of his office. The Learned Counsel had looked into the case decided in the Court of Exchequer, to which the Court had on Saturday called his attention. It was that of a Deputy Prothonotary of the Welsh judicature, who refused to deliver up certain papers to the principal, and in which the Learned Barons decided that the Prothonotary had his remedy by civil action ; but in that case the papers so de tained were not public documents or papers in which the pub. lie had any interest. The present was a very different case— the papers detained were wills, codicils, &c., to which the public had at all times the right of access, but which right could not be exercised while they remained in the custody and under the control of the defendant. Rule Aisi granted. CORPORATION OF CAMBRIDGE. Mr. JARDINE applied to the Court for a rule calling upon the Corporation of Cambridge to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue, commanding them to execute a bond for securing to Mr. Harris, late town-clerk of that bo rough, an annuity of 1971. 19s. for his life. Since the pass ing of the Municipal Corporations Reform Act, Mr. Harris had been removed from the offices of town-clerk and clerk of the peace of the borough, and the Town Council having re fused to grant him any compensation for the loss of those offices, he had in the usual form appealed to the Lords of the Treasury, whereupon their Lordships requested to be fur nished with information as to the amount of the fees and emolu►Ments of those offices. Having received the required information, their Lordships, in October, 1837, awarded an annuity of 1971. 195., and directed the Corporation to pay the same. Mr. Harris subsequently served the officers of the Corporation with a copy of their Lordships' order, and made repeated applications to them ; but although three months had now elapsed since the order had been made by their Lordships, he had only received evasive answers to his appli cation.—Rule Nisi granted. THE QUEEN U. HELLIER. On a former day Mr. - ARCHBOLD obtained a rule to show cause why the defendant should not be discharged from Ayles bury Gaol on his entering into recognizances, himself in 501. and two sureties in 251. each, to keep the peace towards his %life. It was then stated that the defendant's wife had exhi bited articles of the peace against him at the Court of Quarter Sessions, when the Justices made an order that he should enter into the above recognizances, and issued a Bench war rant for his apprehension. 1-lo was afterwards taken into custody on .that warrant, and brought before Mr. Rose, a Magistrate, who ordered bin) to enter into recognizances in double the amount required by the Sessions, and in default committed him to Aylesbury Gaol. Mr. Wit.mottE now showed cause against the rule, and Mr. ARCHBALD having been heard in reply, the rule was made absolute. DOE DEM CLARKE P. lIILWELL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL. appeared to show cause against a rule in this case to set aside an award, and proceeded to read a long affidavit made, as he said, by an Attorney in answer to it. _ _ . Mr. PLATT contended that the affidavit could not be read, on the ground that it was not entitled in the cause. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL contended it was not neeess7.ry, as there was an cad of the cause the moment it was referred to arbitr;stiou, so far at least as the affidavits were concerned. . Mr. Justice COLERIDGE 'said it was strange that all the affidavits were properly entitled, except that made by the Attorney. Mr. PLATT—The person whom my Learned Friend calls the Attorney is only a cooler.—( Laughter.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—That then proves the truth of the old adage, "Ne sutor ultra crepidam."—(Laughter.) - Rule discharged. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 30. WHITTAKER V. MASON. This was an action brought to recover the price of a quan tity of books purchased at an auction in October, 1834, and the declaration contained two counts—one for not delivering bills of exchange, the security required by the custom of the trade ; and another upon an account stated. To the first count the plea was, that the custom did not bind them to give the required security. There was a replication to the plea, and a demurrer to that replication, which was argued and decided in favour of the defendant. The only remaining count was upon the account stated. An order was then made. by Mr. Justice Vaughan, at chambers, that the costs of that demurrer should be suspended until the termination of the cause. The defend ant subsequently became bankrupt, and the plaintiff proved his debt under the commission, and defendant obtained his certi ficate in September, 1836. No proceedings had been taken until lately, when the defendant had given notice that he in tended to take the cause down for trial by proviso. Upon that Mr. Sergeant Wilde, for the plaintiff, had on a former day obtained a rule, calling upon the defendant, or his attorney, to show cause why the proceedings should not be stayed, because the defendant had become a bankrupt and obtained his certifi cate, and why the defendant's attorney should not pay the costs of the present application. Mr. KELLY to-day showed cause against that rule, and Mr. Sergeant WILDE supported it. The COURT—The rule must be discharged. Judgment accordingly. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JAN. 30. DE ANGIOLI V. BOCIISA, CUItIONI, AND OLE BULL. This was an action brought by Signor de Angioli, a singer at the Italian Opera, to recover the sum of 201., as salary agreed to be paid to him for the services of his daughter, in singing at concerts at Bi ighton, for one week. After hearing Counsel, the Court granted a new trial, upon payment of costs by the plaintiff. WILLINAN V. WORRELL. Mr. PLATT moved fora rule to show cause why the ver dict in this case, which had been for the plaintiff for 241., should not be put aside, and a nonsuit entered, or a new trial had. The question was as to the admissibility of secondary evidence, to prove the handwriting of the subscribing witness to a contract, the defendant objecting that no proper in quiries had been made for the purpose of producing him. The COURT refused the rule. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. •LD COURT. Yesterday Thomas Eaton, aged 40, was indicted for steal ing a 101. Bank of England note, the property of Thomas Croucher. Mr. PRENDAGAFT stated that the prosecutor, on the 18th of last October, changed a cheek for 181. at Coutts's bank, and received in return a 101. Bank of England note and Si. in cash, all of which he placed in his pocket-book. As he was coming out of the bank a person passed him, but that per son, instead of going into the bank, passed round, and went away. A short time afterwards the prosecutor missed his pocket-book, returned to the bank, obtained the number of the note, and stopped the payment. Between one and two o'clock the same day the prisoner purchased a watch for 21. at the shop of Mr. George Finlay, 43, Ratcliffe-highway, and in payment gave a 101. Bank of England note, which, upon being presented to the Bank, was stopped, as being the note stolen from the prosecutor. The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HA TTO.N GARDEN. Yesterday Mr. Thomas John Wall, gentleman, of Sey mour-street, Brunswick -square, was brought before Messrs. BENNETT and RocEas, in the custody of Sergeant Campbell, 16, E division, charged by Mr. Page, of Kenton-street, B r unswick-square, with having cut and wounded him. Mr. BENNETT ordered the prisoner to find bail to appear at the Sessions to answer the charge. MARLBOROUGH. STREET. Louisa Talbot, alias the Hon. Mrs. Talbot, was brought before Mr. CONANT and Mr. COChTOY, for further examina tion on numerous charges of swindling. The first charge was that of Mr. Churton, linendraper, Oxford-street. The prisoner went into the complainant's shop in January last, and obtained a shawl and a handkerchief. She stated her residence to be at No. 36, Harley-street. This address was ascertained to be incorrect. Mr. CONANT—Did you trust the prisoner from her respect able appearance? Complainant—Yes, believing her state ment to be true. Mr. CONANT—We cannot go further with this charge ; it does not amount to a false pretence in law. Have you re ceived back your goods? Complainant—Yes, I have. Mr. R. Marchant, silversmith, 351, Oxford -street, next came forward. On the 13th of November last the prisoner came into his shop, and on representing herself to be Mrs. Kendall of No. 20, Oxford-terrace, she was allowed to take away two pair of knife -rests, value 9s. The prisoner promised to call and pay for them the next day. The knife-rests were found in the hands of Mr. Ncate, pawnbroker, Duke-street. Mr. CONANT.—Do you know any one of the name of Ken dall ? Mr. Marchant.—Yes ; Mr. Kendall, now of Univer sity-street, who formerly lived at No. 20, Oxford-terrace, is a customer. He had left Oxford-terrace at the time the pri soner represented herself to be Mrs. Kendall. Mr. • CONANT.--Would you have trusted her had you thought she was not the person she represented herself to be ? Mr. Marchant.—Certainly not. Mr. Coventry, umbrella-maker, Oxford-street, proved that the prisoner had obtained a silk umbrella in November last. The umbrella was pledged at Mr. Neate's shop. On investigation the evidence was not sufficiently strong to sustain the charge of fraud ; and Mr. Neate expressed his willingness to restore the umbrella. The prisoner was then occlered to stand remanded till Sa turday next, at one o'clock. She appeared very dashingly dressed, and her manners are calculated to deceive the un wary. She is rather short, and appears somewhere about thirty-three. WONDERS OF THE FROST.—A Berkshire paper vouches for the fact, that on Saturday last, in fulfilling an order fur a quantity of milk, the vendor, in order to prevent disappointment, forwarded, a distance of five miles, half a gal lon in a frozen state, tied up in a newspaper. On being heated, the milk is stated to be as good as ever. The York shire Gaz6tte of Saturday last records that "in a field near Darlington a sparrow was taken hanging to the branch of a tre e. It was discovered to be frozen to the twig on which it Lai perched, and could not disentangle itself." We understand that so great is the urgency of the distress existing among the poor at this inclement season, especially among the Irish, that last week there was an order made for more than 100 of the most indigent natives of that country to be admitted into the poor-houses connected with this town, as a temporary asylum from the storm.—Sheffield Chronicle. The Berlin Journal of Voss has the following from the 'Dardanelles, December 20.--" During the high north winds, from the 15th to the 18th of December, 120 ships passed the Straits without stopping at the Castles to deliver their firman, as the regulations require. The Pacha has complained of this violation of the treaties with the Porte, and these complaints have been communicated to the Mini ters of the European Powers at Constantinople." FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, between one and two o'clock, W. Hobbs, aged 40, expired in Charing cross Hospital, from the injuries he sustained by being run over by a waggon loaded with coals, which he was driving up Villiers-street, Strand, about four o'clock on the preceding afternoon. The fore and hind wheels passed across the un fortunate man's abdomen ; he was removed to the hospital with the blood gushing from his mouth, and endured the most excruciating sufferings until he expired. The deceased has left a wife and large family. Notwithstanding the peaceful results which the daily disastrous defeats of the Canadian insurgents are likely to lead to, the recruiting is still going cn briskly both for the army and the navy. Yesterday immense placards were posted at the Admiralty, offering great attractions to able-bodied seamen, in the shape of an immediate supply of grog and provisions, and stating that they would be instantaneously placed on full • pay. These lures, accompanied by a love of glory, which is never a minor consideration in the estimation of a Briton, had the desired effect, and during the day crowds of aspirants in search of laurels had assembled around the depot in Thames street, eager to accept the wages of their country. THE WEATHER.--The thaw has proceeded with such rapidity as to have entirely altered the appearance of the parks, which have been comparatively deserted. The water is two or three inches deep on the ice, and there were few such ardent lovers of skating, as to feel desirous to enjoy it under such circumstanees. One or two did, however, splash through the water, no doubt to the surprise of the geese and ducks in St. James's-park. The ice in the river is a great deal de tached from the shore, and activity once more prevails on the wharfs at the river side. In many parts the ice is so thick, and has got so high up, that some time will elapse before it can be wholly removed. The flax-spinners in the north of England have been much surprised by the recent observatiJns of a Morning Contemporary on the export of that material to France. Speaking of the French convention of manufacturers now in session at Paris, it is observed by our contemporary that they have become alarmed at the introduction of our linen yarns, and propose to recommend a prohibitory duty for the protec- • tion of the flax-spinners of France. The Yorkshire spinners, however, have investigated this announcement against their export trade, and have sent up a deputation on the subject to the Bard of Trade. There is nothing whatever to be appre hended, we think, from the rivalry in manufactures of a country where coals and iron are subject to a high duty on importa tion, and where a thousand other monopolies and prohibitions are among the long list of anti-commercial regulations by which the industry of France is so much oppressed. Coals at this time are full 425. per ton, at Rouen, which is termed by our contemporary the Manchester of France• whilst steam-engines are about one hundred per cent• more expensive than in England, and the advantages in cheaper provisions and lower wages of labour are by far outweighed by the superior skill and steadiness of the higher-paid operative manufacturers of blanch,•ster and Leeds. With fuel about 400 per cent. dearer than in Yorkshire and Lancashire, there is no fear whatever of any permanent rivalry in flax-spinning or weaving on the part of the population of France. Even the cotton-manufacturers exist in that country by means only of enormous bounty upon the export article ; thus purchasing a kind of spurious prcsperity to one small district of the country at the expense of all the remainder of the population of France. The silk-manufacturers of the southern provinces exist also with difficulty, amidst all the starvation of the operatives of Lyons and Marseilles, although France has the advantage of raw silk grown in the country duty free; whilst the English silk-manufacturers have to Rat a high duty upon the raw material, with all the freight, in" ranee, and other charges attending its importation. sup posing the linen yarns of England to he excluded by a pro hibitory duty, as proposed by the Convention of Manufac turers, then the price of the article will rise to double its pre sent amount, and the temptation to the smuggling of English yarns be accordingly doubled forthwith. Considering that the fabric of linen is on the averacre fully doubly dearer than that of cotton, there is no doubt whatever that the smuggling of English linen yarns and linen would become at once a very considerable branch of the French contraband trade. That the rise in the price of linen would decrease its consumption in France is an injury which the English flax-spinners w ould, no doubt, have to apprehend from the proposed addition to the barbarous mercantile regulations of the French, for to spin a material such as flax in opposition to the manufacturers of England, assisted by the smugglers of France, is held to be impracticable to any very serious extent • and the only opera tion of such a rise in the duty upon linen will be to condemn the French to the use of inferior Cotton articles of dress, and thus to exemplify still further the folly and self-inflicting na ture of all such stupid systems of prohibitory laws. BIRTHS. On the 28th inst., the Countess of Burlington, of a son. On the 27th inst., in Hill-street, the lady of W. Strahan, Esq., of a son and heir. On the 28th inst.., in Portland-place, the lady of Captain Goldin Taubman, Seots Fusilier Guards, of a son. MARRIED. At Clerkenwell, on the 28th inst., Mr. Robert William Patch ing, to Mary, the daughter of Mr. John Kitching, of Lymingtont Hampshire. On the 27th inst., at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, Williana Snagg, of the Illiddle Temple, barrister-at-law, Solicitor-General for the Island of Grenada, to Anne, daughter of late J. Turner, Esq., of Hereford. On the 25th inst., at Llangattock Church, Brecon, the Ref. Thomas Johnson Ormerod, M. A , eldest son of George Ormerod , Esq., of Tildexley, Lancashire, and of Sedbury Park, Gloucester shire, to Maria Susan, eldest daughter of J. Bailey, Esq., M. P-1 of Glanusk Park, 13recon. _ • DIED. At Highgate, on the 25th inst., James Agar, Esq., aged 51. On the 26th inst., aged 55, Edward Cole Galloway, Esq., of London-road, Leicester, son of the late Rev. John Cole Galloway , Vicar of Hinckley, Leicestershire, and nephew of the late Very Rev. Dr. Burnaby, Archdeacon of Leicester. On the 26th inst., at the Vicarage, Myddleton, Lynn, Norfolk, aged 14, Emma Octavia Verona, youngest daughter of the Very Rev. Dean of Middleham and Mrs. P. Wood. On the 27th inst., Mrs. Twining, widow of J. Twining, Esq. , of Spring Grove, Hampton, aged 75. At Willey, near Farallam, aged 55, Sir Ralph Palmer, late Chief Justice of the Court of Judicature at Madras. At Winchester, on the 27th inst., Mrs. Moberly, widow of E. Moberly, Esq., of St. Petersburgh, aged 74. On the 27th inst., at Colebrook -terrace, Islington, Mrs. Eliza beth Beard, aged 68. On the 26th inst., Edward Austin, Esq., of Clapton, aged 66. On the 27th inst., in Southampton-terrace, Kentish-town, Mr. Thos. Bird, aged 62. On the 24th inst., at Assington-cottage, aged 86, Mary, w idore of the Rev. John Hallward, Vicar of Assington, and Rector of Milden, Suffolk. On the 28th inst., at King-street, Finsbury, Christiana, widow* of W. M. Porter, Esq., of Finsbury-square. On the 26th inst., at North-crescent, Hertford, Sarah, widow of the Rev. E. Heysham, Rector of Little Munden, Herta, aged 92- On the 26th i ns t., age d b 7, Mr. WilliamWhalley, of Grea t Tower-street. On the 25th inst., at Hyde-vale,'Greenwich, Sophia Wrangbarn, wife of John Kay, Esq., late of the Hon. East India Company's Civil Service. On the 24th inst., Maria, wife of J. Potter, Esq., of Arnwell street, Pentonville. On the 24th inst., at Bridgeford Hill, Nottinghamshire, Abe l Beaumont, Eeq., aged 66. On the 27th inst., at Page Green, Tottenham, aged 65, Eliza beth, only surviving daughter of tly , late W. Row, Esq. London : Printed and Published - by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the coda/ el 111 idd1esex.—Wcdnesday, January 31, 1838. - -•- DESSERT FRUIT KNIVES AND PORKS. Plated on Silver Steel Blades. 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